Bible Verses About Desire for Life

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.

One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple.

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.

He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight.

Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.

Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.